Old photograph of Gunsgreen House by the harbour in Eyemouth, Scotland. The houses was built around 1753 according to a design by the Scottish architect James Adam. Patrick Hume of Billie acquired Gunsgreen House in 1764. Later it came into the possession of John Nisbet. The merchant Nisbet was a well known smuggler and set up the building right next to the port to receive smuggled goods. After Nisbets trade was increasingly disturbed by the authorities in the 1780s, he lost his fortune in a court case initiated by his counterpart Alexander Robertson in 1789. In the following centuries the house often changed owner. Throughout its history, it has also served as the hotel and club of the local golf club. In the 1990s the neglected Gunsgreen House was empty. The non profit Gunsgreen House Trust was founded in 1998 and restored the villa by donations.
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